Fiction

RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB 2017. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD.'A dazzling tale of romance and survival' (Guardian)Follow the path to the freezing north. Follow your ambition. Follow your heartFlora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at...

The Bromance Book Club was one of Bustle's '21 Rom-Coms To Give You Warm And Fuzzy Feelings'!If you love Ali Hazelwood, Sally Thorne and Helen Hoang, you'll LOVE Lyssa Kay Adams!Readers adore Undercover Bromance! 'This series is one of the best...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In The...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We are such stuffAs dreams are made on; and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep.' Magical and dreamlike in its tone, Shakespeare's The Tempest...

THE HOLY THIEF: At the height of the hot summer of 1144, the abbey at Ramsey is in danger. When heavy rain brings the threat of floods to Shrewsbury and the holy relics must be removed to a place of safety, the subsiding waters reveal a robbery has been...

'A gripping and satisfyingly scary' (Sunday Telegraph) bumper collection of RIVETING, DARK STORIES from the No. 1 bestselling master of the form, now with a stunning new cover look.Just after sunset, as darkness grips the imagination, is the time when...

It's never too late to start living your life...Nina likes her life exactly as it is. Happy(ish) in her teaching job, and with no love interests on the horizon, she knows she can't get hurt if she doesn't rock the boat. But Nina's octogenarian...

'Makes you want to read every word...the plot is serpentine and satisfying, with enough false trails and distractions to create a genuine mystery' Telegraph The streets of London seethe with rumour and conspiracy as the King's navy battles the French at...

A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern ClassicsGrowing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many...

'Deighton's best book ... an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation' The New York Times Book ReviewIt is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King...

Thirteenth century France. Bridget has grown up mastering the mystical gifts of her ancestor, Mary Magdalene, whose unbroken female lineage has kept a legacy of wisdom alive for a thousand years. But the all-powerful Catholic Church has sworn to...

Robert wants nothing more than to become a serious art historian. But his hopes for an academic life are put on hold when he's driven from London to Venice to escape one lover and seek out another: the enigmatic Bulgarian refugee Lina Pancev. In Venice,...

1286 and on a storm-ridden night King Alexander III of Scotland is riding across the Firth of Forth to meet his beautiful French bride Yolande. He never reaches his final destination as his horse mysteriously slips, sending them both crashing to their...

Princess Mirror-Belle and the Dragon Pox is a magical story from the stellar picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, creators of What the Ladybird Heard. A fun story about an unexpected friendship paired with bright and distinctive...

Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man known as Salvatore Giuliano - if he can find him. At sea amid the treacheries of a brutal and unfamiliar land,...

Now a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Laurence FishburneTracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a...

A gloriously sunny book of family secrets, lost loves and self-discovery, One Summer in Crete by Nadia Marks is an engrossing holiday read.'If you don't think you're about to get to Crete this is the next best thing . . . we've never needed books of this...

A murdered family. A dying serial killer. A missing child. DC Max Wolfe hunts a pitiless killer through the streets of London. By the Sunday Times number one bestselling author of The Murder Bag.'This is brilliant stuff!' Peter James'The colourful plot...

Agatha Christie's seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any...

The second book in the Angelique De Xavier series, from author Christopher Brookmyre. Their eyes met across a crowded room. She was just a poor servant girl and he was the son of a rich industrialist. Er, no, this is a Christopher Brookmyre novel,...

A far-ranging, invigorating and irrepressible collection of essays on literature, cinema, art - and everything in between - from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Feel Free and Swing Time'Alarmingly good' Metro'Striding with...

'Impossible to put down' New York Times'Thrilling and entertaining' Los Angeles Times'A narrative that can grip you like a vice' Daily Mail'Unputdownable... Jaw-dropping' News of the World_______________________________NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIESThe...

***Thrillers that race from the very first page***'Felix Francis' novels gallop along splendidly' Jilly Cooper 'From winning post to top of the bestseller lists' Sunday TimesHarrison Foster is a lawyer by training but works as a crisis manager for a...

When David Thomson took a journey to the sea coasts of Scotland and Ireland to seek out the legend of the selchies - mythological creatures who transform from seals into humans - a magical world emerged. Men were rescued by seals in stormy seas, took...

What should it be, this whopping terrific exploding shocker for Grandma?This beautiful edition of George's Marvellous Medicine, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is perfect for...

Candide, or the Optimist is Voltaire's hilarious and deeply scathing satire on the Age of Enlightenment. This classic of French literature has been a bestseller for over two hundred years.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning,...

Complete and unabridged.Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation.Part of...

The Dream Daughter is a page-turning and unforgettable story of love and hope from bestselling author Diane Chamberlain.When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501156748Author Stephen KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982111779Author Greg BearFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 28mm

Selected as one of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. From Booker Prize winner Ben Okri, a deceptively simple modern fable with an ancient origin. A young man finds himself living among invisible beings who have built a utopia based on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841352367Author Anne Grahame JohnstoneFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Award Publications LtdPublisher Award Publications LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551528236Author Francesca EkwuyasiFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

The Number One Bestseller from Helen FieldingThe Wilderness Years are over! But for how long?Bridget's second diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason takes us through a year that begins with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy (who never does the washing up)...

1941. The bombs still fall, but in St. Ives Christmas is finally approaching for the Cornish Girls... With the war ongoing, Lily is feeling anything but festive. That is, until Eva asks if she'll join her in working...

'Tam and I took hold of Mr McCrindle and lowered him into the hole, feet first. We decided to leave his cap on'. Fencers Tam, Richie and their ever-exasperated English foreman are forced to move from rural Scotland to England for work. After a disastrous...

With glamorous locations and heart-breaking twists, Christmas in the Snow by Karen Swan is all you need for a truly decadent Christmas holiday. The perfect gift - even if it's just to yourself.No secret stays buried forever . . .In London, the snow is...

The latest - superb - collection from everyone's favourite cartoonist!'The master of the pocket cartoon. You can't be better than the best' Gyles Brandreth'Like a sunrise, he lifts the heart. He's so touching and achingly funny' Jilly Cooper'That rare...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425251249Author Nalini SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman on his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. A hasty retreat from the...